Meaning of hyacinthine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of the colour of a hyacinth (either the gem or the flower); reddish-gold (chiefly with reference to hair).
2. Curling like the petals of the hyacinth.
3. Beautiful, like the mythological Hyacinthus.

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Examples

“His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks / Round from his parted forelock manly hung / Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:”

“[…] the nicest young man that ever was, — daintily gloved, patently booted, oilily curled, snowily wristbanded, with a lovely cambric (prima facie) handkerchief bound about his hyacinthine locks and polished hat.”

“The beautiful boy has flowing or richly textured hyacinthine hair, the only luxuriance in this chastity.”

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